The surface is rolled as the clay courts were being finished at the Chillicothe Fitness & Racquet Club. The courts have to be rolled on a daily basis.

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After eight years of being lost and neglected behind a chain-link fence and wooden patio, the Chillicothe Fitness & Racquet Club has restored its outdoor clay courts.

When Chuck Halm became manager of the courts at the club in 2012, the first question members had for him was whether he would reopen the clay courts. Halm said funds would not allow him to do so at the time, but he made it a goal to clean and resurface the courts as soon as possible.

Earlier this year, Halm began crunching the numbers on what the cost of restoring and reopening the courts would be. The estimate to complete the project was ...